Old mikey

[SteelChip]

Badcat summed up my feelings. I've lost 80% of my emotional attachment to the team and the NFL. Tired of the games they (NFL) allow to be played, tired of allowing racist players a free pass, tired of obvious tampering going not only unpunished, but not even investigated. Throw in the disaster that is Mike Tomlin and I am where I am. A Facebook memory popped up from 6 years ago where I was complaining about yet another uninspiring loss by the team. 6 years later - absolutely nothing has changed.

You have hit on all the relevant issues I have too. Only problem that looms prophetic to my ongoing fandom is the 63 tumultuous years I have invested in this declining love affair.

 

[Coryea]

5 In lanes isn't an over commitment. I understand that concept. But you have to have a good spy like Watt or Bush alone a MLB and then 5 at the stick or beyond. Rally to the ball.

When you tell them to get to the QB at all costs it is absolutely an over commitment, those 5 guys did not stay in their lanes at all, if they did Wilson doesn't have huge lane to take off out of, and I don't know what the coverage was behind that, if it was man, then not having a spy is ******* idiotic at best. And seeing who the HC is, I'm guessing yes it was man coverage so all the DB's had their backs turned to Wilson. It's not like it was Brady, Bree, or Rivers back there, everyone knows Wilson can run.

 

[Badcat]

A Facebook memory popped up from 6 years ago where I was complaining about yet another uninspiring loss by the team. 6 years later - absolutely nothing has changed.

I had a memory pop up on mine as well where the is a picture of me holding a beer, terrible towel over my shoulder, with a Ric Flair "Whoooooo" face after beating the Ravens, and I REALLY miss being that guy and having the emotional connection to the team that you talked about.
The Steelers were "Home" to me, especially when I was deployed over-seas and watching the Blimp flying over that beautiful city skyline. It's all gone, and I hope that there is a day when I can get that back. I really do. But, I've come to the realization that it will never happen as long as Tomlin and his coaching staff on the side lines.

 

[SojournerSteel]

I had a memory pop up on mine as well where the is a picture of me holding a beer, terrible towel over my shoulder, with a Ric Flair "Whoooooo" face after beating the Ravens, and I REALLY miss being that guy and having the emotional connection to the team that you talked about.
The Steelers were "Home" to me, especially when I was deployed over-seas and watching the Blimp flying over that beautiful city skyline. It's all gone, and I hope that there is a day when I can get that back. I really do. But, I've come to the realization that it will never happen as long as Tomlin and his coaching staff on the side lines.

I think that's where many are with the team and the NFL in general. What Art and Tomlin really have done is insult our intelligence over and over, and sane people can only stomach so much insanity as defined by Einstein.

Tomlin was also a political hire and he started to lose people when he referred to DL as an "OWG" in his thin-skinned interview with Fox Sports years back. Then there was the sideline incident, and tortured equivocations when it was clear for all to see he knew exactly what he was doing by dragging the position down to Bush League level.

He brought hubris with mediocrity. Endless "we accept responsibility" soundbites with seemingly no grasp of his own words. He's what the King's English referred to as a "vain jangler."